AMID THE FRAY In Terry Gilliam’s 1985 dystopian film “Brazil,” there is a scene where diners at a restaurant casually continue eating their meals while a terrorist bomb explodes nearby, taking out another table of diners. The scene has often come back to me as I look at what our society increasingly accepts as normal. […]
Chaminade receives $1 million grant for culture-based science program
Chaminade University of Honolulu received a $1 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to fund Pacific Island culture-based STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) education programs. The gift was announced June 7. The school was one of 24 awardees in the institute’s 2017-22 Inclusive Excellence program out of more than 500 universities that had […]
Photo: Award-winning church
La Salette Father Arlan Intal and Marina Pascua, pastor and parishioner of St. Raphael Church, Koloa, Kauai, display their parish’s Historic Hawaii Foundation’s 2017 Preservation Award. The parish received the honor, the foundation’s highest recognition of preservation projects that perpetuate, rehabilitate, restore or interpret the state’s architectural, archaeological and cultural heritage, at its 43rd annual […]
Father John Catoir: The optimism of Pope John XXIII
Don’t trust your pessimistic feelings. There was a great outpouring of elation from the laity and the clergy in 1959 when Pope John XXIII announced plans to convene the Second Vatican Council. He was 68 years old, and was considered too old to take on such a gigantic task. His optimism frightened the cardinals who […]
Photo: Water man Gene
Bishop Larry Silva on May 25 blesses the new pump that will soon supply St. Stephen Diocesan Center with water. The apparatus sucks water out of a 300-foot deep well to service the complex which includes residences for the bishop and others, diocesan offices, the Carmelite Convent, retreat facilities and more. The pump was christened […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Body, blood, soul and divinity
FEAST OF CORPUS CHRISTI Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 14b-16a; 1 Corinthians 10:16-17; John 6:51-58 This weekend the church celebrates the Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ, or as perhaps it is better known by its Latin translation, Corpus Christi. The first reading is from the Book of Deuteronomy, one of the first five books of […]
Photo: Emerging Franciscan Fraternity
Members of the St. Damien of Molokai Emerging Fraternity of the Secular Franciscan Order on Kauai pose for a photo. They are, from left, John Bonn, Bill Dick, Elsie Pasol and Cefi Costales. Missing is Allen Reis. The Secular Franciscan Order provides an opportunity for lay Catholics and non-order religious to live a Gospel way […]
Father Mario Palanca, military chaplain: The most powerful weapon
VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald I am a devotee of our blessed Mother. I was born on the feast of Mary, Our Lady of Peace when it was celebrated on Jan. 24. Consequently, I had built a small chapel dedicated to the patronage of Our Lady of […]
Heralding back: June 16, 2017
NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 25 years ago — June 19, 1992 Pope formally approves Damien cure The Vatican has paved the way for the beatification of Father Damien de Veuster, the 19th-century “leper priest” who lived and worked among leprosy victims in Hawaii. On June 13 Pope John Paul II approved a miracle attributed to […]
Join the global rosary relay in the cathedral
All are invited to pray the Glorious Mysteries for all priests on Friday, June 23, at 11:30 a.m. in the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in downtown Honolulu as part of a global rosary relay. Deacon Modesto Cordero, director of the Office of Worship, will start off the Hawaii rosary. Each individual bead […]
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